BOSSIER CITY, La. - Here's an odd bit of trivia. Trainer Bob Baffert, a Kentucky Derby-winning horseman who has been associated with a long list of top-class 3-year-olds, has never started a horse in the . That will change on Saturday, when he accompanies Point Determined to town for the Grade 2, $500,000 race at Louisiana Downs.

Point Determined will also be Baffert's first starter at Louisiana Downs, and he should go off as the second choice behind favorite Lawyer Ron.

"I've always seen the Super Derby and I've wanted to come with horses," said Baffert.

A freak accident forced Jacaranda Jane to miss the early part of the summer. The failure of a third-level allowance race to fill during the Saratoga meet forced her to miss the rest of it.

On the day before autumn starts, Jacaranda Jane returns to the races in a $50,000 third-level allowance race, which serves as the feature event on Friday's nine-race card at Belmont Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. - It will be many months before Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum begins to find out if the $59.9 million he shelled out on yearlings at this year's Keeneland sale was money well spent.

He did, however, get an early return on his $41.875 million investment at last year's September sale when Incriminate, who races under Maktoum's Darley banner, won his debut at Saratoga last month. Incriminate, who at $1.5 million was the ninth highest of 27 purchases Maktoum made at the sale, will try to add to his value when he runs in Saturday's Grade 2, $250,000 Futurity at Belmont.

Lost in the Fog, who was stricken with cancer last month and was euthanized Sunday at age 4, was popular with fans and horsemen alike.

Golden Gate Fields is working on a tribute to him Sept. 30, and several members of the Golden Gate backstretch reflected this week on his career.

Trainer Reade Baker has been busy at the Keeneland sales this week, picking up several yearlings for some of his major clients. But he will be back at Woodbine in plenty of time for the weekend and will be looking to send out a meet-leading ninth stakes winner in Saturday's $125,000 La Lorgnette at 1 1/16 miles.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Stakes winners Sheer Enchantment and See the Wind should be at opposite ends of the field when they travel down the backstretch in Friday's featured sixth race at Woodbine, an $80,000 optional claimer.

Sheer Enchantment figures to be well back in the early stages of the 1o1/16-mile grass race, as See the Wind takes up her customary position near the lead.

CHICAGO - Francisco Torres, who came back from substance-abuse problems that derailed his North American career in 2000, was off his mounts on Wednesday at Hawthorne Race Course and has checked into a rehabilitation clinic in Kentucky, according to his agent, Bobby Kelly.

ALBANY, Calif. - Lost in the Fog, who was stricken with cancer last month and was euthanized Sunday at age 4, was popular with fans and horsemen alike.

Golden Gate Fields is working on a tribute to him Sept. 30, and several members of the Golden Gate backstretch reflected this week on his career.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - The need for unity and concern for the future were the major themes at the first New Jersey Horse Industry Symposium, held Wednesday at Monmouth Park.

The symposium was the initial event for the New Jersey Horse Industry Alliance, a newly formed coalition that represents all aspects of the state's equine interests. The symposium started with Monmouth barn tours at 8 a.m. and concluded with comments from General Assembly Speaker Joe Roberts.

Trainer Tom Bohannan plans to return to Oaklawn Park for the first time in nearly a decade when the 2007 meet opens in January. Bohannan said he is requesting stall space for about 10 horses, all of whom are owned by Arkansas businessman John Ed Anthony.

Bohannan and Anthony were a formidable team nationally in the early 1990's, winning the Preakness in 1992 with Arkansas Derby winner Pine Bluff, and again in 1993, with Prairie Bayou.